How to Use egotism in a Sentence
egotism
noun- In his egotism he thought everyone was coming just to see him.
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His egotism and myopia further blur our view of the larger puzzle.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
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In a profession not without egotism and elitism, Vincent was among the friendliest.
—Joe Lapointe, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2021
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The adjective has been paired with everything from egotism to irony to fascism.
—Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
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To its portrait of the perils of complacency, this final scene thus adds a portrait of the egotism of survival.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
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Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism.
—Jonathan Taplin, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2023
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Over the years, his conceit and egotism would cause a string of problems in his personal and professional life.
—Jonathan Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2017
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Ford v Ferrari takes the straightforward ethos of car racing—where the winner is whoever is the fastest—and lays bare the egotism and greed required for such a triumph.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2019
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Her stubbornness and egotism helped kick-start and prolong the massive prodemocracy protests of 2019.
—Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 8 May 2022
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The ’80s have long been regarded as a period of unabashed, and at times irredeemable, egotism and excess.
—Stephen Mooallem, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Sep. 2017
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Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes.
—Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 19 Aug. 2017
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This drives home the underlying claim of the book: egotism was the ultimate reason for polar exploration.
—Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
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As with many Shakespearean characters, Moses’s arc is a fall from idealism to egotism.
—Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2022
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Alexandra Cunningham does play with the levels of egotism and narcissism.
—Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 17 June 2020
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Laurel wonders quietly about the glee with which Daphne skewers the language-fallible and is struck by her sister’s egotism.
—Susan Dominus, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
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A Space Odyssey that was the ultimate product of self-annihilating egotism.
—Armond White, National Review, 30 June 2021
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Broder had not a trace of the disabling egotism, ruthless ambition or partisan zealotry that afflict media stars today.
—Lance Morrow, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2020
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From stage to screen to stream, the vanity, narcissism, and general egotism of actors have always been a reliable source of amusement, especially in the hands of the right satirists.
—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
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First of all, there's his monumental egotism and tactlessness.
—SI.com, 10 May 2018
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For Dixie and others who get targeted, the online vitriol comes in all forms: body shaming, gear shaming, charges of egotism and self-promotion.
—Taylor Gee, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2019
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But the egotism that often drives these endeavors means that what is left behind can, in certain cases, feel more like a monument to one man’s idea of himself than the fruit of a passionate engagement with the arts.
—Washington Post, 2 May 2021
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And last night, Stormy showed us how, by demonstrating what resistance to Trump’s domineering egotism might look like (Congress would do well to emulate Stormy).
—Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
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But in the arrogance, shallowness, and titanic egotism of his pronouncements, Lennon was only a faint precursor to Kanye West.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
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But those admirals—hampered by egotism, greed and envy of one another—squandered every chance to intercept and defeat the fleet of the French naval commander, de Grasse.
—Alan Taylor, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
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Seeger’s concept of labor renounced the religious idea of good works and Christlike discipleship; it was based in egotism and calls for revolution.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 Apr. 2023
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Much of motherhood literature can radiate a sort of wounded egotism, as if the greatest crime that society might commit against a woman were to think ill of her.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2021
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Too much emphasis on the self can lead to obnoxious egotism, or desperate loneliness or alienation and paranoia.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
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Through a combination of hard work on Rachel’s part, greed on Pam’s, rank stupidity on her son’s and a combination of egotism and self-delusion on Frank’s, a bigger story does indeed come to light.
—Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 24 Apr. 2020
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As the nation faces a worsening pandemic and what promises to be the gravest economic downturn since the Great Depression, aggression and egotism cannot carry a nation.
—Susanna Lee, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2020
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Every instrument sounds individually miked, and the balances done in the editing room meant to underscore a sense of massive egotism.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
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